Then backward enginner every battle: will winning this battle actualy get me to winning the war

Most people do not engage in a methodical process of questioning, evaluation of assumption, investigation, information gathering, analysis, planning and finally actin. Most people function in routines that they do not question, living life day to day and facing the same problems everyday

Most people are struggling with something with somethignSame struggles, handicaps, limitations, rlelationship problems, inabilities to communicate: inefficient techniques, putting out fires or urgencies, same kind of fires and emergencies

NOT STRATEGIC

Most people dont sit down and strategize = hate life

NEED INTEL FROM MANY SOURCES

ON LIFE

On mastery process

Relationships

Love

Finances

Self-knowledge

How do I work?

study the machine that is the mind and human being?

What is stratgic thinking?

Thinking logically and deeply about future: it means where you want to be 5 years, 5 months, 5 days from now should inform what I do today

We are our own enenmy

So we must study ourselves

How do I go to war with myself? Sabatage myself?

Most people never do this: It should be what we do with all of our spare time, it should be the most important thing we do.

Common PLunders

Getting married in 20s

drinking and partying in college

not devleoping mastery

eating unk food

chasing money rather than passion

chasing achievement and status in life rather than passion

staying loyal to a dysfuncational family matter

thinking you can get something for nothing

going into debt, credit cards

working in a boss: in a giant company

working 80 hours a week

too cheap to buy books, or invest in an online course or information product, too cheap to go to a therapist or life coach, too cheap to go to a seminar

living in the wrong place

chasing sex or love

neglecting meditation and enlightment work

taking religion too seriously

Basically a blunder is come from: not doing the right thing at the right time

NEed to think Macro and also think Micro. Need to jump back and forth from macro to micro, every single day

Macro: stuck in airy fairy dreamer land

Skill that needs to be developed

Micro: stuck in the minutiea

Being able to think Macro and Micro

Getting caught in the mind

people cant delay gratification

chasing for pleasure: for the immediate gain

THERE CANNOT BE A STRATEGY IS YOUR STRATEGY IS IMMEDIATE GAIN = disasterous military campaign

Everything promised to you is instant, fast, flashy: I get use to it, so I chase it and forget that all the really important stuff in life

The CUL-DE-SACS in life: things you shouldn't do, the things that are traps, dangerous, things that are risky, costly, dont take it seriously

sleeping around

Chase the small prize vs the big prize

Judge: "this is nice, but there a bigger prize, maybe theres a factor that renders the third thing not even wortht it compared to this thing

What are the cultural and business traps?

in religion, education, politics, social circle, media, advertis

No Strategic intent: NO BIG VISION: SEE 10, 20, 30 years down the road

=lack of motivation, lack of results,

More than just applying some little "techniques" here or there

"It's a way of looking at the world with purpose in mind"

"It's a way of dealing with a constantly changing environment, both responding to that environment to achieve your goals and also attempting where possible to change the environment to your benefit."

Firstly, "Strategic thinking is setting goals and developing flexible long-range plans, to reach those goals based on careful analysis of internal and external environments

Sports: studying the competition learning as much as you can about the competion, learning as much as you can about his tendencies, his habits and his weakness

"It's a method of plan that we craft, to bring about a desired future. such as an achievement ot a goal or a solution to a problem"

Life is earned through strategic thinking

Nothing is going

Takes Strageic Reources: what should I build for myself so that I can get what I want out of life?

I need: a certain skillset, build and deveop reources, jobs,

7 Pillars

strategic intent

"a compelling vision of the future that motivates action,"

Ultimate thing that you're going for. The ultimate outcome that you want. It needs to inform all the steps.

a road trip with a desitination. You know which way you want to turn, which roads to take.

EVERYDAY: IS THIS ACTION MOVING me toward getting me where I want to go?"